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Marketing

# marketing - Today’s News

From Business ETC Pester Power

Kids have serious ‘pester power’ on family food purchases

The breakfast cereal in a family’s cupboard is often dictated by the children.

# marketing - Thursday 9 May, 2013

16 of the cleverest ads from around the world

One of them is horrifying. See if you can figure out which one.

# marketing - Saturday 6 April, 2013

From Business ETC Not For Menz

PepsiCo exec admits Diet Pepsi is basically only for women

It’s “targeted at females who love home design” apparently as marketing director reveals tactic to help ailing sales.

# marketing - Wednesday 3 April, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Opinion

Column: Forget the Mad Men stereotype – women are making their mark in modern-day advertising

Advertising has a record for recognising innovation, creativity and talent – irrespective of the sex of the candidate – and setting specific workplace objectives for women to aspire to board membership will further help gender diversity, writes Deirdre Waldron.

# marketing - Thursday 14 February, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Opinion

Column: Why Valentine’s Day is a marketing dream

You can’t put a price on love – really? As long as there’s consumer interest in Valentine’s Day, the commercial opportunities will follow, writes Dr Margaret-Anne Lawlor.

# marketing - Friday 25 January, 2013

From Business ETC Clever This post contains videos

This ad is really footage of a €15k robbery

A Brazilian menswear store turns the tables on pre-Christmas thieves with their new ad campaign.

# marketing - Thursday 24 January, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Smoking

Column: Women aren’t being ‘tricked’ into smoking by pretty packaging

Women smoke because they want a nicotine hit – not because they’re taken in by cute packaging or promises of weight loss, writes Nuala Walsh.

# marketing - Wednesday 23 January, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Clocks This post contains a poll This post contains videos

Video: What do you think of the new Guinness ad?

This one cost €6.5m to make. Worth it?

# marketing - Tuesday 25 December, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Gentle Persuasion

Irish ads of yore that we don’t mind at all

There are no ads on RTÉ today… but if there were, we wouldn’t be charmed if they were like these ones from the turn of the 19th century.

# marketing - Thursday 20 December, 2012

From Business ETC Cola Wars

What’s the difference between Coke and Pepsi?

Is it taste, ingredients or… branding?

Jingle Hell This post contains videos

How to sing Jingle Bells while terrified by a speeding car

New BMW ad challenges a capella group to harmonise while being thrown around a race track.

# marketing - Monday 17 December, 2012

From Business ETC Tourism

Tourism Ireland wins two major marketing awards

Ideas such as a social-media-led mystery holiday won the gongs for all-island tourism body.

# marketing - Thursday 29 November, 2012

From Business ETC Visitors This post contains images

Tourism Ireland wants to increase US visitors by one-fifth by 2015

The Gathering and takeover of ireland.com website central to plans to get US visitors to ‘Jump Into Ireland’.

# marketing - Sunday 25 November, 2012

From Business ETC Social Media This post contains images

10 viral marketing Facebook posts that got most ‘likes’

These were the most successful marketing posts on Facebook last month.

# marketing - Wednesday 7 November, 2012

From The Score Air

The NBA’s most prolific dunker is the newest face of the Jordan brand

There’s some big Nike boots to fill. And Blake Griffin reckons he’s the man to do it.

# marketing - Wednesday 31 October, 2012

From The Score Swoosh

Opinion: Rory McIlroy facing his biggest change

McIlroy is a marketing dream, which made him worth too much to stay with Titleist.

# marketing - Friday 19 October, 2012

From Business ETC We Have A Winner

EU Court of Justice bans ‘pay to claim your prize’ promotions

Marketers will no longer be allowed to tell consumers that have “won” a prize only to ask them to incur a cost for collection.

# marketing - Tuesday 16 October, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Your Say This post contains a poll

Poll: Do you try to shop in Irish-owned supermarkets?

Study shows that chains like Tesco, Aldi and Lidl are experiencing more growth than homegrown Irish chains – do you make a conscious choice to shop in Irish supermarkets?

# marketing - Friday 12 October, 2012

Excruciating Model Photo Op of the Day

Argh! Oh, hold on…

# marketing - Saturday 6 October, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Happy Ending

‘Alternative CV’ bags UCD graduate a job with Twitter

Jordan McDonnell’s CV went worldwide with 115,000 views – and ended up getting him a job in his home city.

# marketing - Wednesday 26 September, 2012

From Business ETC Jobswatch

Marketing software company to create 150 jobs in Dublin

HubSpot will open its European headquarters in the capital in response to a 200 per cent growth in international business.

# marketing - Monday 17 September, 2012

From Business ETC Data Protection

Vodafone to pay €40k to charity to settle marketing breach

The Data Protection Commissioner settles a complaint with Vodafone over breaches of laws on unsolicited marketing.

# marketing - Sunday 16 September, 2012

From Business ETC Badvertising This post contains videos

Are these the most irritating Irish ads ever?

Bertie in the cupboard, awkward RTÉ Guide man, an overexcited chicken fancier: here are our nominees for some badvertising for distinctly Irish products.

# marketing - Friday 24 August, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Cigarettes

US court upholds block on graphic cigarette warnings

The government can’t force tobacco companies to put graphic warnings on cigarette packets.

# marketing - Saturday 4 August, 2012

A COLD ONE This post contains videos

It’s International Beer Day…

It’s a bank holiday weekend and International Beer Day? It would be rude not to…

# marketing - Tuesday 31 July, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Outside The Box This post contains images

UCD graduate’s alternative CV goes viral with 90,000 views

Commerce graduate Jordan McDonnell was being rebuffed for marketing jobs – so he put together a different kind of CV.

# marketing - Wednesday 25 July, 2012

From The Score Viral This post contains videos

VIDEO: Nike aren’t supposed to have an Olympics ad… but this is good anyway

Adidas won’t be happy that this ad is getting plenty of buzz.

From The Score London 2012

UPDATED: Olympic organisers back down in Paddy Power poster row

Paddy Power celebrate a “victory for common sense” after LOCOG agree to let controversial ad campaign stand.

# marketing - Monday 16 July, 2012

Stretchy Hand

Viral Marketing Masterclass of the Day

If you haven’t seen this on Facebook yet, chances are you will soon.

# marketing - Sunday 24 June, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Jean Genie

Irishman designs jeans made from… beer bottles

Entrepreneur Peter Heron is making waves in New York with clothing made from part-recycled materials – and looking to the internet to give punters a vested interest in the company.

# marketing - Sunday 17 June, 2012

Not Lovin' It This post contains images

12 McDonald’s menu items that failed to take off

McLobster anyone? Thought not.

# marketing - Thursday 14 June, 2012

Sexy Time This post contains videos

Get a room: sexy Spanish ad for property site is… sexy

Ad for Spanish property website idealista reminds us of a certain Bank of Ireland ad from the boom years. Feeling sexy? Buy a house.

# marketing - Friday 8 June, 2012

From Business ETC Sponsored Post

# marketing - Wednesday 6 June, 2012

From Business ETC Flew The Nest This post contains videos

Twitter has a new bird

Twitter’s original bird has flown the nest but has been lovingly replaced by the folk at the micro-blogging site.

# marketing - Tuesday 5 June, 2012

From TheJournal.ie MARKETEERS

One in five marketing executives spend most of their budget online

Digital marketing survey shows Irish marketeers are using social media platforms for online marketing.

# marketing - Monday 4 June, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Opinion

Column: Children are conditioned from birth to develop ‘brand loyalty’

Family clinical psychotherapist Joanna Fortune says toys don’t just let children ‘play’ anymore – they are constantly selling to them…

# marketing - Friday 25 May, 2012

From Business ETC Sponsored Post This post contains images

# marketing - Sunday 20 May, 2012

From Business ETC Buzzwords This post contains images

Are you ‘shovel ready’? 11 bits of jargon you didn’t want to know

Going on a “client journey”? Looking for the “USP? Planning a “mind share”? Then you’ll know what all this lot are on about…

# marketing - Friday 18 May, 2012

From Business ETC Sponsored Post

# marketing - Monday 14 May, 2012

From Business ETC Sell Sell Sell This post contains images

In pictures: Vintage US cigarette advertising

From Santa and pets, to Ronald Reagan and babies, tobacco companies have tried all angles to sell cigarettes.

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